Month: June 2026

Proposals to ban UK government organisations from paying ransomware gangs appear to have lost momentum. The conversation should move towards making critical systems more resilient to attack

We talk to the CEO of nLighten about the limits of the UK power grid, why that makes ‘edge’ datacentres a good idea, and navigating contemporary data sovereignty requirements

Datacentre resilience must evolve beyond uptime to anticipate interconnected climate, grid, and geopolitical risks by embedding adaptive design and strategy into early planning

We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how AI and cloud are being used to support hospital surgery and the challenges of a life-or-death environment. As the UK government announces a social media ban for under-16s, we look into the technology that will underpin the policy. And we hear how AI is transforming the experience for fans at golf’s biggest tournaments. Read the issue now.

Reinforces priority focus areas.

Healthcare unexpectedly prominent target.

Cyber risk assumptions can become outdated in months, not years.

Frontier AI models will pose a greater cyber security risk to government and businesses than previously thought, putting businesses and governments at risk within months

AI tools are increasingly deployed in enterprises, but their sycophancy and unreliability can hamper efficiency. How can organisations take advantage of AI without pain?